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Definition of Gear

Gear

Clothing; garments; ornaments.

Goods; property; household stuff.

Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

Warlike accouterments.

Manner; custom; behavior.

Business matters; affairs; concern.

A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

See 1st Jeer (b).

Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

To provide with gearing.

To be in, or come into, gear.

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Gear Quotations

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!
Charlie Sheen

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
Tony Blair

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack London

My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.
Jay London

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.
Timothy Murphy

We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.
Kerry King

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.
Giuliana Rancic

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!
Trey Anastasio

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
Anatoli Boukreev

I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.
Brian Setzer

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.
Billy Sherwood

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.
Emily Procter

I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!
Lorrie Fair

Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.
Tom T. Hall

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.
Donna Mills

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.
James Iha

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.
Christopher Shays

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
Nigel Dennis

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.
Paul Parker

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Richie Benaud

The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.
Juan Manuel Fangio

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.
Michael East

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.
Georgie Fame

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
Ralph Bunche

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.
Paul Parker

He lives with his creativity in high gear.
John Travolta

I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.
Frank Whittle

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Gear Translations

gear in Danish is gear
gear in Dutch is kamrad, tandrad, tandwiel, kamwiel
gear in German is Zahnrad, Getriebe, Getriebe, Zahnrad
gear in Italian is andamento
gear in Latin is supellex supellectilis, apparatus
gear in Norwegian is redskap, utstyr, gir
gear in Portuguese is engrenagem
gear in Spanish is marcha, funcionamiento

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